we can speak to the spokesman for macedonia's ministry of interior. he joins us on the line from the macedonian capitol. this is not a very humane way to be treating people, is it? who are seeking sanctuary and relief, many of whom are traumatized. it's not a very humane way to be firing stun grenades at them. >> i don't know if you know the situation here, but we were faced with a huge problem the last several weeks, because a large number of immigrants was trying to enter the republic of macedonia, and unfortunately we have limited capacity to help them in most humanitarian way. we were facing the problem to give them enough, you know, food, proper medical care, medical attention [ inaudible ] there were some cases to where the immigrants were practically expelled from greece [ inaudible ] and they werelying here in macedonia. i will say it again, our capacities are not unlimited, but we have decided to declare state of emergency, just to have a better control on our border which is not secure from [ inaudible ] and to let inside macedonia, only a n

, macedonia police helped by macedonia army, stopped them by using so-called shock bombs. they are bombs used usually to prevent violence in football stadiums all over europe. couple of explosions were heard, and ten people were injured and four or them were hospitalized. >> and it looks pretty crowded still, as you were saying some people have been coming and going to get there, but what kind of conditions are those people in? is there any kind of sanitation or set up for them there at the boarder? >> yeah, the situation here is very, very bad, and very serious. 3,000 people don't have practically anything. they don't have water. they don't have any food to eat, they don't have any sanitation to use, they are sleeping outside in the open. they don't have any tents. we only saw a couple of people putting some tents, but they managed to get it by themselves. greece authorities do not help in any kind of way to he refugees. we saw a lot of volunteers here, especially the -- we saw the medical centers here and doctors of the world, trying to help those people, but they are ve

they closed the border when macedonia declared a state of emergency. they are trying to prevent people from entering the fields illegally, of course. the border is secured by a couple of hundred police. yes? >> this is not deterring the thousands of people trying to secure their route north and the fact that there's been a state of emergency imposed in parts of macedonia and that the borders are closed and stun grenades used. this isn't putting people off? >> no, no, people are coming all the time. as i said, this moment, the information is that more than 3,000 people are at the border, but a lot of people rented apartment rooms in the hotel in the place around the border and they are waiting for the moment that the border will be open. so they are not staying out in the open, because at the border, there is tents, people are sleeping outside on the floor. there is no food, no water. greek authorities have secured nothing for them. there are only some volunteers from medical and doctors of the world trying to help the people, providing them with food,

>> chaos in macedonia as riot police try to keep refugees from crossing over from greece. i'm lauren taylor we're live from london. also coming up. a massive explosion hits the afghan capital killing foreign workers. french investigators question a man who wa open fired on a train. and flames are used to smuggle cocaine out of peru every day. find out how the government plans to deal with the problem. >> hello, thousands of people mostly refugees from the war in syria, are continuing to mass on the border between macedonia and greece. they would again fire stun grenades with the crowds. more than 42,000 people have crossed over in the last two months. some have been allowed to board on trains heading north but others remain trapped. many spend the night in the open along the border. >> 48 hours after macedonia shut its border to refugees the gathering crowd makes a break for it. they didn't come this far to be held back. hundreds do get through, sprinting across across open fields as arm police units fire percussion we made, in this case directly at a mother and her two ch

macedonia police helped by macedonia army stopped them by using grenades and ten people were injured. they were hospitalized, but the real number of peopl people who has not had medical help. nobody willing allowed to cross the macedonia border tonight. it will be reopened at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so 3,000 people right now here, they're going to sleep another night outside. >> well, what is available to the people around you there? i'm talking about food, water, what is there to assist them, to help them? >> they're managing by themselves. they don't have any help provided from greece authoriti authorities. they're managing by themselves as they can. there is no water here. there is no food, there is not enough tents for people to sleep outside. you can see behind me there are a lot of people who already are prepared for sleeping another night--as i said earlier, more than 3,000 people are here at this moment. but the number is actually much higher because a lot of them are not the same here at night. they rented some apartments, and they will come back early next morning to see

limb change except these people, away from cities and towns of macedonia. so as the political talking goes on in berlin, brussels and other european capitals, the reality is after the violence in the border there is a primitive reception center on the border and will lead to more on this route moving the humanitarian crisis further up much the lineo other countries. andrew simmons. al jazeera. >> his take right now. >> they're continuously boarding trains and getting into buses out of macedonia, that is the policy of this government. now they want to hear from europe as to how they'll help them pay for all of this. because there is no real policy here. there's no way of actually dealing with the humanitarian situation or the logistical one. right now macedonia is planning to carry on this way, moving people away, but solutions that's down to europe and so far they've failed to get any solution to this problem. >> so macedonia has opened its border with greece but border guards are only letting through very small groups. they want to prevent some kind of rus

railway tracks leading through macedonia to germany and beyond. many have no idea why they're being treated this way. >> i'm not terrorist. this is not terrorist. this is not terrorist. we are humans. where is the humanity. where is the world to see us. look at everyone here. they are families. we don't need anything. just to cross. we don't need money. just to cross. let us cross. i want to cross to germany. >> among them are some who have been sent back from macedonia and receiving harsh treatment by the local police. >> you say that the police were hitting you? >> no, see. this is police. >> this is the police in macedonia. >> the same mother and her daughters are trapped and terrified. >> what has happened to you? tell us. [ sobbing ] >> family, family. >> your family got across and you're stuck here? >> she begs to be allowed to cross. >> we just heard the sound of small arms fired going up above the heads of these people hidden in busch bushs of people trying to get through macedonia. they've crossed the sea in dinghies, they traveled the bo

and around 1,000 people stranded in no man's land between macedonia and greek borders. seven people have died in a mid airplane crash and two planes carrying parachuters collided and there were 38 people on board and the cause of the accident is being investigated. turkey's high election board says a new parliamentary election should be held in november, just four months after the last one. in june the ruling party lost the parliamentary majority and since then prime minister has been unable to form a coalition government. president erdiwan has until sunday to ask another party to try to form a government but he says he won't do that. egyptian group with islamic state of iraq and levante says it's responsible for a bomb blast in cairo and ministry says 29 police were injured in an attack on a security building in the capitol. gunmen in south sudan killed a journalist in an apparently targeted attack. peter a reporter for the new nation newspaper was shot after leaving the capitol duba on wednesday evening and his money and phone weren't taken. and days earlier the presi

macedonia a state of emergency is now in force. around a quarter of a million refugees are known to have crossed the mediterranean successfully this year. many more have died in the attempt. some then continue their journey deeper into europe. this is the scene that calais in northern france. around 3,000 are camped there, trying to cross the channel into the u.k. emma hayward has more now on the situation in macedonia. >> reporter: they spent a cold night in no man's land waiting to cross the border. but their passage was blocked by riot police. rocks were thrown, then this. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: smoke filling the air, with police using stun grenades to try to keep people out. in the ensuing chaos, there was panic. most refugees here have escaped conflict, and few would have expected this. >> they shoot us today. i see it. >> reporter: later more frustration and fear as numbers built up at the border. it was opened for a short time, and then quickly closed again. leaving the crowd desperate to be allowed through. but the heat a

also coming up, macedonia declares a state of emergency. troops and police are being deployed to stop migrants at the border. you will hear from the u.n. refugee agency. in thailand, 10 people were involved in planning the bangkok bombing. one person turned himself in but was later released. one suspect remains at large. i'm sarah harmon, glad you could join us. alexis tsipras has resigned to clear the way for snap elections. he said he wanted a fresh mandate to implement the bailout deal negotiated with international creditors. the leftist leader is seeking to enter -- within his party. september 20 is the most likely date for greeks to go to the polls. >> it has been seven bruising months. it has been leading building up to the announcements. it will give greece another chance to decide to go along with the creditors demands. >> you, with your vote, will decide if this agreement is enough to get out of the dead and we have reached and for the economy to rebound. for us to finally extricate ourselves from bailout and austerity. reporter: n

more details there of the situation on the greece macedonia border and plenty more. aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> wall street in the middle of another big selloff as global markets tumble. >>> new evacuations in the northwest as fires spread faster than crews can contain them. now international help is on its way. >>> and a state of emergency in macedonia, as a migrant and refugee crisis pushing the tiny nation to the brink. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston. well the stock market is plunging again for the fourth straight day. the dow is down nearly 2%, 190 points lower after falling 358 points yesterday. that is the biggest win-day drop in almost five years. nasdaq and s&p 500 also trading down right now. richard wolf from the university of massachusetts says this market turmoil requires careful analysis. >> selloff has to be taken seriously, because anything of this size, happening so quickly is a warning shot across the bow of the world economy. i think the way to understand it best is to see, that when you have a global cap

coming up in the next 60 minutes. [ gunfire ] >> macedonia opens its border just hours after police use stun grenades to stop refugees from crossing from greece. >>> north korea's leader kim ki-jong orders his troops to be ready for war with the south. >>> the terror, the confusion. it was something unbearable. >> it's a two years since chemical attacks in syria killed hundreds. we speak to survivors, still waiting for justice. >>> and in sport, the outgoing head of world alt lettics says his sport still has credibility despi despite doping allegations. ♪ >>> we start in macedonia, where police have fired stun grenades to drive back a crowd of refugees trying to get into the country. the border was briefly reopened and a number of refugees managed to get through. eyewitnesss say at least ten were injured. macedonia is one of the major transit points for refugees trying to get from greece to other e.u. countries. 44,000 have arrived over the last two months. the vast majority are syrians escaping the civil war. there is a small town 3 kill meters away from the border that was the focal

greece and macedonia. -- a no man's land between greece and macedonia. the country said it would grant a limited number to the most vulnerable categories of migrants. the 3000-strong crowd made several it comes to charge the macedonian police at the border. they used grenades and teargas to push them back -- stun grenades and teargas to push them back. at least 10 people were treated for injuries while others came from munitions. these people are trying to cross for macedonia degrees, which has seen an unprecedented wave of migrants this year. -- for macedonia to greece, which is seen an unprecedented wave of migrants this year. the majority are fleeing war and conflict in syria and afghanistan. >> problem about crossing for syrians. moren't prepare for this than 3000 or 4000 more coming. know we are only crossing. reporter: the border between greece and macedonia has until now been porous. the majority want to head to more prosperous northern european countries. after a day of chaos, the u.n. refugee agency says it has received assurances from macedonia

>>> thousands of refugees have pushed back as they try to cross the border from greece to macedonia. hello. this is al jazeera live from london. coming up, two years on from the chemical attacks that shocked the world, will justice ever come for the people of ghouta? >>> alexis tsipras facing a deepening division in his party. 25 members break away to form a new political group. >>> and the north korean leader orders his military to state of war readiness as tensions with south korea escalate. >>> there have been scenes of chaos on the border between greece and macedonia as thousands try to make their way further north across europe. many of them are fleeing the war in iraq and syria. they have traveled through turkey into greece, some of them making shorter journeys by sea to avoid european borders. other countries move to harden the frontiers. in macedonia a state of emergency is now in force and thousands of refugees spend their last night in no-man's-la no-man's-land. about a quarter of a million are known to have crossed the mediterranean this year many moving through war-torn l

macedonia opened that border with greece. they are only letting three small groups in at a time, trying to prevent a mass russia. the greek border town is where people are still arriving every day. >> we're here on the greek side of the border. it is busy, but for the moment, there is a system in place and the system seems to be working. new arrivals coming here all the time at this point are able to the least to access basic aid, food, water, medical attention if they need it, sit under the shelter before continuing. on the railroad tracks are a group of people waiting, macedonia police in front of them, raise door wire across the borderline over there and macedonia police lawing people through in groups of a couple of hundred perhaps once an hour to continue their journey to the railway station. this is an absolutely unrelenting flow of people. to give you an idea of the south of the country, a few hundred kilometers away here on the islands of the aegean, there are 900 people sitting, growing by a thousand people every day

an unrelenting mass of people from greece, macedonia and on to jeash. to serbia. >>> rorrory challands will tell. >> their contempt is as sharp as the razor wire. occupiers, they call the men coming in the night to block public path, pull down electricity cables, break garden walls, this is all partly of an illegal land grab they claim for development of luxury homes along the dramatic coastline. >> all the people here have property and influence in crimea during ukrainian times, rich people, very quickly became part of the russian systems and can successfully protect their interests, they don't want to change anything like the plans to develop lands here. >> using video and social media to raise the profile of their campaign. signatures are being gathered for an anticorruption petition to be sent to president vladimir putin. 15,000 or so people have signed it so far. but it seems like the kremlin is already paying attention. putin's visit last week included an instruction to crimean prime minister to throw out the bad apples. these are the faces of cri

says 7,000 refugees have streamed into serbia from macedonia since saturday. they've they've begun their european journey in greece where it's estimated 1,000 refugees are arriving every day. this report from southern serbia. >> in just ten days, 2,000 migrants arrived here. are this was another tranquil village in one of the poorest areas of certain ya. now it's become an important point of entry for refugees trying to get to the european union. every day thousands of hungry thirst city and exhausted people arrive here. >> i'm expecting just to cross. i just want to cross. to continue my journey. just want to cross. >> we don't have a toilet. the woman here who have an allergic from the sun. to go outside from here you know? >> many say they want to go to germany. europe's strongest economy. and they are ready to endure all the hardships on the way to a better life. and this is just another step for refugees and migrants in the certainan town just 5 kilometers north of the border with macedonia. here they are offered some medical help food and water. the pict

. >> security forces in macedonia have given up trying to stop the thousands of refugees from crossing the border from greece. they are now letting groups of people through and supplying them with buses and trains to take them to serbia. that's the next step in their journey to e.u. member countries. al jazeera is in macedonia. >> two trains have left and now these are the people left behind, trying to get their papers. all it is is a starch, allowing them 72 hours in macedonia, for them to be moved on up to the serbian border. let's take a look around here. there are mainly men here. women and children were given priority to get on the trains, but the system was quite disorganized, it was hit and miss. there was considerable tension with the police and people. the people were quite calm compared to the confront aljazeera america which has happened on the border. they now know there's a way out. they now know there is a route to the serbian border, then on to hungary, from there to france, germany, and there is a belief that their journey may have an ending. whether that's a happy one

. >> you say the police in macedonia were hitting you? >> can see, can see. can see. okay? can see. see here? >> this is police. >> reporter: and this is the police in macedonia? >> yes. >> the same mother and her daughters are trapped and terrified. >> what has happened to you? tell us? >> you can't believe. >> reporter: your family got across and you are stuck here? she begs to be allowed to cross. we have just heard the sound of small arms fire going up above the heads of these people hidden in bushes alongside a field trying to get into macedonia. they have taken staggering terrific get this far. they passed multiple borders on foot. they didn't expect to be met with violence by police. so far, europe has shown its complete inability to deal with this mass of individuals. it's clear the police couldn't stop them so they stopped trying. >> well, jonah hull joins us life from domini. days being stranded on that so-called no man's land, but it seems still many are trapped there. >> reporter: as you can probably just see, this is now a wo

you say the police in macedonia were hurting you? >> this is police. >> reporter: this is the police in macedonia, the same mother and her daughters are trapped and terrified. what has happened to you? tell us. >> your family got across, and you are stuck here? she begs to be allowed to cross. we've just heard the sound of small arms fire going up above the heads of these people hidden in bushes alongside ifield in macedonia. they have taken staggering rivengs to get this far. they traveled the sea in plastic dinghies and did not expect inside the borders of europe to be confronted by violence from armed police. the european union has so far shown its complete inability to deal with this vast movement of refugees, and the macedonians seem to be no better. as night fell, it was clear the police couldn't stop them, so they stopped trying. for now this route is open again. jonah hall, al jazeera on the border between greece and macedonia. >> earlier we got this update from adomini. >> reporter: we spoke to amnesty international on the g

andrew simmonds is in macedonia and jonah hull in a border town. andrew, what is the situation on the macedonian side? >> over an hour ago this entire area, the whole railway station had a mass of people in it. now there are hundreds here, but they are left behind. >> two trains left here heading for the serbian border, and these people, let's take a look along the platform here. these people are those that have not been able to get on board. it was a confused situation. some have papers, some don't. some rush to the border overnight. they isn't it have confrontation. they were allowed to across the boarder, there were scenes of confrontation all along. if you have a look, mainly children have been on the trains that were left here. there has been sense to what has been going on, but the special police at some stages have been picking out people as they desperately pleaded to get on the train, and sometimes saying yes. right now, if you look over here, on that corner over there, people are pleading with the police. there are no humanitarian workers

>> this is the police. >> this is the police in macedonia? >> it's all yet another sign of the european union's complete inability to deal with this vast movement of people. instead of proper aid and care, there are private donations of water, and fast food vendors profiting for their most basic needs. pounding the misery it's beginning to rain. i spoke with aid agencies with a skeleton staff. they have no idea where more formal arrangements will be made for these people. that means on the greek leadership and macedonia government, if the border does not open soon there is every chance that these people will leave here and find another way to cross here. >> many are huddled together on muddy ground with nowhere else to go. >> all right, now let's talk to the head of international amnesty in greece, and thank you for talking to us. your organization has been particularly critical of the way the macedonian authorities are handling this situation. >> hello, yes, indeed. what we're hearing is very concerning. we hear about people being treated as

andrew simmons, al jazeera, in macedonia. >>> let's cross now on the greece/macedonia border and what is happening there? >> reporter: about 100 meters or so down the rail way tracks the rail way station inside macedonia where andrew compiled that on this side of the border things are busy but relatively in order and there is a system of the chaos in the resent days. these people have just arrived at this point. they are able here to take a break and can get some assistance from the aid agencies gathered here, food, water as well as basic medical care if they need it. and on the other hand over there where the macedonia police have spread razor wire and armed and controlling that crossing point. it's not an official border by any means whatsoever but every hour or so they allow groups of perhaps 200 people or so to walk on down the rail way tracks into macedonia and a much more ordered scene we have seen in resent days but make no mistake there are many people here and many more coming. >> it seems that way from what you are showing us there, more people are still arriving and that do

they feel macedonia is behind them. this horrible ordeal which happened a few days ago at the macedonia/greek border and feel relatively safe and know from here to eu there is only one more border ahead and i think that is the very good sign for them and they are happy because of that. >> reporter: and are they crossing the official border crossings there or just basically anywhere they can? >> actually we came from macedonia just three or four hours on official border crossing and have not seen a single illegal migrant and i have spoken to the police officer there from the macedonia side and serbia side as well and they told me there is a number of roots and small paths between serbia and macedonia which are used frequently by these people who are trying desperately to go or come closer to the eu to get into the eu countries so they are using those channels and they are using these, according to some people there a number of locals are helping them for some amount of money or not, that is something that nobody wanted t

also coming up, macedonia declares a state of emergency. troops and police are being deployed to stop migrants at the border. you will hear from the u.n. refugee agency. in thailand, 10 people were involved in planning the bangkok bombing. one person turned himself in but was later released. one suspect remains at large. i'm sarah harmon, glad you could join us. alexis tsipras has resigned to clear the way for snap elections. he said he wanted a fresh mandate to implement the bailout deal negotiated with international creditors. the leftist leader is seeking to enter -- within his party. september 20 is the most likely date for greeks to go to the polls. >> it has been seven bruising months. it has been leading building up to the announcements. it will give greece another chance to decide to go along with the creditors demands. >> you, with your vote, will decide if this agreement is enough to get out of the dead and we have reached and for the economy to rebound. for us to finally extricate ourselves from bailout and austerity. reporter: n

macedonia became the crisis. the second in command from islamic state of iraq and levant has been killed in an air strike. they said that they were killed as they travelled in a car to the city of mosul on tuesday. >> worries about the health of a chinese economy rattled stock markets across the world. the main dow industrial average fell more than 500 points on friday. it's the worse the stocks suffered in four years. it was part of a global market. which saw a price hit a 6-year low to under$40 a barrel. technology companies were hit with billions whipped off their value. figures show turkish confidence is at its lowest in six years. the currency feeling the pressure, but the lack of stable government and increased stance hits the economy. bernard smith reports from istanbul. >> turkey's consumers are nervous. a lack of optimism fell to a low, according to the institute. a political stalemate and violence fuelled uncertainty. now the country's currency is suffering. as long as the dollar stops, business will be

thousands of refugees are pushed back as they try to cross from greece into macedonia. two years on from the nuclear attacks that shocked the world. will justice ever come? >>> tsipras has a deeping division. 25 members break away to form a new political group. >>> and is this property a steal? the $4 million home of leon trotsky with a few surprises. >>> we have all the day's sports including athletico in beijing under the shadow of doping allegations. >>> there have been scenes of chaos on the border between greece and macedonia as thousands of refugees try to make their way further north across europe. many are fleeing war in syria and iraq. they traveled through turkey and into greece. some of them making sure to journey by sea to avoid european borders. other countries have moved to harden their frontiers. in macedonia a state of emergency is in force and thousands of refugee spent last night in no-man's-land. many moved through war-torn libya to reach the italian island. many more have died in the attempt. some continue their journey deeper into europe. this is th

hundreds of refugees bored a train taking them from macedonia to serbia. macedonia has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people trying to cross its territory on the way to northern europe. >> 34 people have been killed in airstrikes in the rebel held town of douma. 200 people are thought to be trapped under rubble. anti-government protests continue in the lebanese capital, beirut. this is the scene live. people are angry with piles of garbage mounting on the streets and are blaming the government for corruption. >> the saudi-led airstrikes targeted houthi positions around the port city. this is not the first time the area has been hit. earlier raised on the port itself have been criticized by the u.s., the e.u. and the u.n. the port is crucial to facilitate aids delivery for northern parts of the country. joining us from riyadh is a the spokesman for the saudi-led coalition, brigadier general. thank you for talking to us. there's been criticism of the saudi-led coalition's airstrikes in particular, saying it's knocked out civilian infrastructure. >> he

away from people in cities and towns of macedonia. and so as the political talking goes on in berlin, brussels, and other european capitals, the reality here is that after the violence on this border there is a primitive reception center. refugees have quickly moved on, and it will unyou doubtedly lead to more coming on the route leaving the crisis further up the line. >> it's pretty rough to see politicians pointing the fingers at one another with seemingly absolutely no idea with what to do next, and no kind of joined up policy here. >> well, you're right, david, it's chaos. look, there is a line here. there are lines coming from all directions right now over here as well, if i just move over just to show you this is now very ordinarily compared to how it was two or three days ago which resulted in some violence. but really, it is a situation where, as i said earlier, the politicians here are not thinking about the humanitarianism, they're thinking about getting these people out of here. and they're in a terrible state. absolutely a

andrew simmons, al jazeera, macedonia. >>> many of the refugees coming into macedonia are arriving from greece. and jonah is there from the port of perez outside of athens, what is happening there at the moment, jonah? >> reporter: yeah, around half of all refugee arrivals into the european union come in through greece. i'm standing at the key side of athens port and waiting for arrival of the passenger ferry in two hours of 2500 refugees being transported to athens from the island of lesbos and that and other islands on the front line of this massive wave of humanity into the european union. this will be the fifth boat load in a week since shuttle trips were arranged and that is 12 hours crossing and 12,500 and others come here by passenger ferry on their own or bi-plane load at some 50,000 arrivals in july alone, august figures look set to be higher. we have been in touch this morning with the authorities on the lesbos, the mayor's office confirms 10,000 people are currently sitting in two makeshift reception centers in extremely rudimentary conditions, a thousand more arriving every

we have seen freight trains moving from greece into macedonia. the blockade they put in place with razor wire has been eased substantial this. they are allowing groups of people through in an ordinarily fashion to follow the railway line as they have done for months on foot to the railway station. and all the while people keep arriving here and they will continue to do so. they are being ferried in daily shuttle runs from the southern islands of greece. people arrive just this morning and they make their way up by foot, by bus. and then here to this point. here is my report of the events of saturday before the reopening of this route. 48 hours after they shut the borders, the crowd makes a break for it. they didn't come this far to be held back. hundreds do get through. sprinting across open fields as armed police units fire grenades. in this case, directly at a mother and her two children. until thursday this was an invisible open border, railway tracks leading from greece through macedonia towards serve yeah, the eu and germany beyond. now refu

there. >> you say that the police in macedonia were hitting you. >> this is the police in macedonia. >> it is all another sign of the european union's complete inability to deal with this vast movement of people. there are private donations of water and fast food vendors profiting for their most basic needs. >> it is beginning to rain. i spoke to the aid agencies on the ground with just a skeleton staff. they don't know when there will be able to make former arrangements because if they don't open this border soon there is every chance that the people will leave here and find another way across. >> for now they're determined to wait. the most vulnerable huddled together on muddy ground with nowhere else to go. al jazeera on the border between greece and macedonia. >> while thousands are trap in the area, the rescue effort is on the coast of libya to save others. they say at least 18 vessels carrying 3,000 people have been sited off the coast of libya. 300 people have died this year alone trying to make this perilous journey across the mediterranean to europe. >> let's go to afghanist

railway tracks leading from greece to macedonia, serbia, the e.u. and germany and beyond. now refugees have no idea why they're being treated this way. >> i'm not terrorist. this is not terrorist. this is not terrorist. we are human. where is the humanity. where is the world to see us? look everyone here, they are families. we don't need anything, just to cross. we don't need money. let us cross. let us cross. i want to cross to germany. >> among them are some who have been sent back from macedonia, alleging harsh treatment by the local police. >> you say that the police in macedonia were hitting you? >> see. >> the mother and her daughters are trapped and terrified. >> what has happened to you? tell us? [ crying ] >> your family got cross and you are stuck here? >> she begs to be allowed to cross. >> we just heard the sound of small arms fired going across the heads of these people hid no one buschs along side a field trying to get into macedonia. they've taken staggering risks to get this far. they've traveled the sea in plastic dinghies, they've crossed the borders on f

says 7,000 refugees have arrived in serbia from macedonia since saturday. the influx comes after macedonia reopened its southern border with greece and earlier it declared a state of emergency sealing the crossing and say it couldn't cope with the numbers of refugees trying to enter the eu and we are on the serbia side of the border with macedonia. >> reporter: i saw one camp which is roughly one kilometer behind me which is guarded by the police but have not seen barb wire or any fence and have not seen any kind of tensions roughly around 100 serbia police officers and border police and several hundred of migrants. what is happening that those people are being gathered there at that location and then being taken on foot to the location right behind me and as you can see there is a one u.n. hcr bus and another one is just coming this way and these buses are taking and shipping these refugees and illegal migrants from this place to a town which is something like five kilometers north from here. i've seen a number of relatively happy faces among refugees and

hello rks we begin in macedonia, thousands dropped in a town on the boarder between greece and macedonia, pa many have been escaping the war in syria. some coming from other parts of the world, looking for better economic opportunities. jonah hull is in romania on the greece side of the border. >> no session as yet whether anyone will be plet in as happened on friday. there was a point they allowed a group much a few hundred of vulnerable people passing through. let me show it to you. that's the or over there, where the bottle neck formed. it wasn't until thursday with greece on that side and macedonia on that side. now marked by razor wire, armed yunts and police holding these people back as he they arrived in groups, more and more by the hour, hoping to go through macedonia, serbia, and on into the borderless zone of the european union. there's a shift happening as be speak, on the ground. large numbers of syrians gathered themselves together. and we turn the camera around. they moved to the hillside. a large crowd of people. these are exclusively syrian. pt reason they made the move w

hundreds of refugees allowed into macedonia as security is eased at the border. >>> hello. here is what else is coming up. >>> it's scenes like this many are escaping from. we report on the people scavenging for food in syria. also ahead - frustrations on the streets of beirut. thousands protest what they say is a dysfunctional government. . >> i'm in bogota, where hundreds of cuban doctors that fled venezuela are caught in the limbo here in columbia >>> security forces in macedonia have given up trying to stop thousands of refugees crossing the border from greece. they are letting group of people through, and authorities are supplying buses and trains to take them to serbia, the next step in an e.u. journey. it was a different scene on saturday when hundreds of refugees and migrant made a run for the border. security tried to use stun guns, they were overwhelmed. this is why we are seeing a rush of people at the border. they are trying to get to hungary, a major crossing point into the e.u. hungary is building a 4 meter barbed wire fence. along the border with syria. the r

>> crowds of refugee push by police over the border between macedonia and greece after an intense stand off. >> hello, i'm maryam nemazee. this is al jazeera. live from london. also coming up, a massive explosion kills 12 people in the afghan capital including afghan civilians and three american workers. hailed as heroes, france thanks a group of passengers for overpowering a gunman on a train. >> what else is there to do? either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. >> macedonian police have allowed thousands of refugees gather at the border to cross into the country. it follows a tense journey for refugees who journe make their way to europe. >> they did not come this far to be held back. hundreds do get through, sprinting across open fields as there are percussion grenades, in this case fired at a mother and her children. this was an invisible open border. tracks leading through greece through serbia, the e.u. and germany and beyond. now families have no idea why they're being treated this way. >> i'm not terrorist. this is not terrorist. this is not terrorist. we're hu

about 45,000 migrants have crossed through macedonia over the past two months. on their way to the european union. andrew simons has more from macedonia's border with greece. >> reporter: there is no end it seems to the suffering, the exhaustion. it's a different place, a rail play platform. waiting for another journey. at one stage police and soldiers had been blocking the border with force. now they are organizing transit for these people to pass through macedonia and then onto serbia. in the crush, there is tension. a train has arrived. there is no way everyone can get on board. that doesn't seem to be any -- there doesn't seem to be any system telling these people whether they have a right to board this train or not. it's his and miss. people are plead to go soldier to his let them on board. they begin to let people through in orderly lines. the anxiety turning in to smiles of relief. some of the security forces here are helpful and considerate. but any resistence to their orders is seen as provocation. one officer was heard telling a refugees if you don't l

they don't want an overflow inside macedonia, they want that to be here. for the people arriving here, a much more organized scene. you see it behind me, a section of it, anyway. aid has arrived today, albeit late, offering food, water, medical assistance and clothing to people. they have a chance to rest and then they move on. >> ok. jonah, thank you very much indeed. that's on the greek side of the border as people again start to mass, hoping to get through to macedonia. well, the italians, meanwhile, they've been rescuing people trying to get to europe via a different route. they're trying to get to europe through the mediterranean sea, most of them coming from north africa. the italian coast guard carried out 22 separate reaction operations, picking up over 4,000 people. more than 2,000 have died trying to make this perilous crossing. >> in germany, right wing protestors have been fighting with police. >> this is the scene, this is the second night demonstrators angry over the arrival of so many asylum seekers as they see it. germany said the number qu

andrew simmons reports from macedonia. >> reporter: in the heat of macedonia's border with greece the pathway for refugees may be fully opened again. the only confrontation occasional minor scuffles. as the pace has quickened politicians are bogged down with arguments. macedonia's interior minister defended the decision to close the border last week. talking about the what the european union was or wasn't doing about the situation right now. in the brief time they spent with refugees, iman al shebali, wanted to get a word in. >> to solve this problem for syrian refugee why then make safe zone in syria? >> sebastian kurtz didn't have an answer to that question. macedonia's interior minister blamed greece saying it had no controls or security on its border. >> translator: our intention was not to close the border but to protect it. >> this was confrontation with refugees, in humanitarian terms surely it was a disaster. >> our efforts were motivated by the humanitarian situation. >> it's also the fault of greece. if there is no support for the refugees there. >> what are you going to do

thank you to macedonia. reporter: he and his family will now take the train to serbia and then to germany. others, above all the youngest, or too tired to move. on theeynolds, bbc news, greece-macedonia border. anchor: elsewhere in europe, french antiterrorist investigators are examining an incident where a man opened fire on a train traveling between amsterdam and paris. three people were injured, two of them critically. there is no information about a motive for the attack. rebels from greece's governing left wing syriza are to break away and form a new party. the party will be led by a who isenergy minister, strongly opposed to the bailout deal with greece's creditors. the prime minister and alexis on thursday, down paving the way for new elections there. girls' education campaigner malala yousafzai has achieved a string of top grades in her school exams. she survived being shot by the taliban and after writing a diary about life under their rule in northwest pakistan. since her treatment and recovery in

macedonia closed its borders. special forces fired stun grenades into the crowd. several were injured. click>> [indiscernible] they shoot the people. reporter: some migrants were admitted that the country's prime minister warned, we must keep access to our country and check especially the numbers of migrants. that is assuring the get that would help they need very at a fortunate few fortis the train to serbia. the plan to continue northwards towards the european union. 44,000 have made the journey in the last two months alone in search of hope and a home no matter how careless trip. in france, antiterrorism police are investigating a shooting which left three people wounded on a high-speed train traveling through the country. passengers overpowered a gunman on the empty van -- amsterdam to pair service. the suspect, 20 60 man of moroccan origin was armed with an assault rifle and a knife. he is said to be known to intelligence agencies. we will see bringing you more on that story and later programs. people interview will be going to the polls for the second time t

what can macedonia do? they know we are the only crossing. the border between greece and macedonia has until now been porous. the vast majority of migrants want to have two more prosperous northern european countries. for sidonia says the police and army will be called in -- macedonia says the police and army will be called in to stop the massive influx from greece. anchor: jean-marie le pen has gotten the boot from the party. they have decided to criminally banish the 87-year-old. his daughter and party president has been trying to distance the party from its openly racist and anti-semitic image. he is not going quietly. >> expelled from the party he built from the ground. he no longer has a place in the national front. for months, his daughter and current party leader has been striking a delicate balance between showing loyalty to her father while distancing herself from his extreme views. but this spring, he repeated his opinion that nazi gas chambers were a " detail" of history. >> we see this as a media strategy. the doctrine of the nati

this is a village near the border with macedonia. just weeks ago it was another tranquil village in one of the poorest areas of syria. now it's become an important point of entry for refugees trying to get to the european union. every day thousands of hungry, thirsty and exhausted people arrive here. >> i'm expecting just to cross. i just want to cross, to continue my journey. just want to cross. >> we have the women here, allergic. to go outside from here. >> reporter: many say they want to go to germany, europe's strongest economy. they are ready to endure hardships on their way to a better life. this is another step for refugees and migrants. just five kilometers north of the board with mass don't y they are offered medical help, some food and water. the picture here is different than the situation at macedonia's border with greece. roughly around 5,000 people went through this migrants and refugees registration point during the last three days. after they are registered, they are heading towards nearby train station and bus stati

greece and macedonia. but their passage was blocked by wright police. rocks were flown, and then this, smoke filling the air with police using some grenades to try to keep some people out. and the ensuing chaos there was panic. most refugees here have escaped conflict, and few would have expected this. [ yelling ] >> later more frustration and fear as numbers built up at the border. it was opened for a short time and then quickly closed again. leaving the crowd desperate to be allowed through. but the heat and the crush was too much for some. tens of thousands of people have crossed through macedonia's borders heading north. too many authorities declared a state of emergency in two border regions. most want to try to reach serbia, hungary, and other parts of europe. while the border is still being so closely guarded many will have to stay and wait wherever they can on the greek side. >> there are hundreds of persons. some are babies. some with medical needs. most of them if not all of them stay in the open

chaos on the macedonia border with greece today. take a look. [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] >> special police forces fired as you can see here, tear gas and beyond that stun grenades to stop a wave of refugees from entering the country. many have been camped out in a stretch of no man's land along the border with greece. our correspondent is on the greek side of the border with macedonia. ivan, what happened there this morning? the pictures are pretty frightening. >> reporter: yes, the chaos is the right word that describes what happens this morning. people are tired, people are nervous, many of them are -- are traveling more than two weeks, so no wonder that incident happened, because a lot of them are waiting here at the border more than three days. they tried to break through the police barricades, and force entry to macedonia. macedonian police helped by macedonian army stopped them by using grenades and ten people were injured, four of them seriously, and they were hospitalized, but the real number of injured people is much higher

and the railway line between greece on that side and macedonia. now the border is marked by racer wire. holding these people back, as they arrived en route more and more people by the hour making their way up, hoping to go through macedonia, and on into the end zone of the european union. i'll tell you there's a shift apping as we speak on the ground. large numbers of syrians gathered and moved back. we'll turn the camera around. a large crowd of people. these are exclusively syrians. the reason they made the move is because they want to the separate themselves from the other nationals. the iraqis and others as well, and what they say is that all of them, the nationalities claim to be syrian, because they have the most valid claim. they are refugees, they are fleeing civil war, and others are economic migrants. the syrian set up their own group, and expect to be dealt with appropriately. there's no sign of that at the moment. >> joining you wills, a psych -- joining us is psychologist with doctors without borders. talk to us, first of all, about t

this is a village near the border with macedonia. it was another tranquil village in one of the forest areas of serbia. now it's an important point of entry for those trying to get to the european union. thousands of hungry and exhausted people arrive here every day. >> i want to cross, i just want to cross to continue my journey. i just want to cross. >> we have a woman here. straight to go outside from here. >> reporter: many want to go to germany, europe's better economy on the way to a better life. this is another step for refugees and migrants. 5km north from the border with macedonia. here they are offered food and water. the picture here is different than the situation on the macedonian border. >> according to the u.n.h.c.r., 5,000 went through migrant points. after these people are registered. they are headed to train stations and bus stations, catching buses and trains to belgrade, a step closer to the final goal and destination, hungary in the e.u. >> reporter: doctors without borders calls it an exodus, saying more refugee

you are not terribly far from the border of macedonia. what can you tell us. >> the chaos is happening on the greek side of the border, they want to get across to the macedonian side of the border, but have been prevented from doing so. in the last five minutes or so, there has been five or six explosions of percussion grenades and tear gas. there was another in the distance as police controlled a chaotic situation. 100 metres up the track there, and 300-400 out into the fields. a lot of these people have been on a staggering journey to get here. afghanistan, iraq, most of them wanting to get to germany. they are barely halfway there. they've taken immense risks getting this far. they are inside the borders of europe. confronted by armed police and tear gas. >> reporter: until thursday, this was an open border, railway tracks leading through macedonia through greece, e.u. and germany beyond. now it's got razor wire and mass tonian, and they are here to confront not rioters, but refugees, those fleeing syria's civil war. like this man and